"You should go to Pittsburgh"

I don't know if Warhol ever actually said that, but it will forever be in my head when I'm walking down Crosby Street and remember Bowie as Warhol advising Basquiat on possibly relocating to the iron city. Holland Carter has a piece about his Dia show up right now, and in it is this little bit of awesome. So many ways to communicate, I'm learning...

Yawning is a way of talking, he once said, and he routinely dropped into comatose mode in the presence of people he didn't know or like. Initially, he did so out of nervousness; there was a candid, clowning side to his personality, which probably got him into trouble as an effeminate kid. As an adult he figured out that silence could be protective camouflage, even a source of power. He developed it as a personal style, though he was verbally as sharp as a tack when he wanted to be.